EFF march against e-Tolls
JOBURG - The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are set to march against the implementation of e-tolling.
EFF spokesperson Patrick Sindane said they would be staging a protest in Johannesburg’s CBD on Friday, 1 November, as well as march to the offices of the premier and the transport department to hand over a memorandum.
Sindane argued that the system’s implementation would rob Gauteng residents of their hard-earned money.
“Already our people can’t cope with the high cost of living [and] high petrol prices, yet they must be sucked dry continuously,” he said.
He further called on citizens, civil society and anyone opposed to e-tolling to reject the system, adding that it represented a “systematic and well-planned robbery by the Zuma-led government”.
On 9 October, Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance’s (Outa) legal challenge against e-tolling was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Appeal, where the alliance later announced that it would no longer fight the legal battle against the system due to lack of funds.
